Minnie Driver Deaf to Doctor on Baby's Sex

Though Minnie Driver has expressed her wish not to know the gender of her child, a doctor revealed that very info during a recent medical exam.

Still, the expectant actress, 38, insisted to her TV host on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “I don’t know whether he said ‘he’ or ‘she.’ ” How come? She was simply too busy concentrating on the doctor’s comments about her cervix.

The two friends who accompanied Driver to the examination did hear the doctor, however – and one pal is allegedly blackmailing Driver to buy him things so he won’t spill the beans, she said.

Though she feels like “I’ve been pregnant for nine years,” Driver says the baby is due in “six or seven weeks – but maybe sooner.”

Quipped fellow Kimmel show guest, Saturday Night Live regular Andy Samberg, as he gazed at the expanded Driver: “I’m confused by how attracted I am to you right now.”